Nurse Informaticist

Bring your clinical expertise and informatics experience to a role where nursing practice, technology, and enterprise transformation converge.

The Nurse Informaticist will join UVA Health's newly centralized Nursing Informatics department, helping translate complex clinical workflows into technology solutions that improve care delivery and the clinician experience. This highly visible role offers the autonomy to influence informatics strategy across inpatient, ambulatory, community, and specialty environments while helping build the future of nursing informatics at UVA Health.

The position follows a flexible Monday through Friday hybrid schedule, typically including two to three onsite days with the remaining time worked remotely based on business needs. There are no routine on-call responsibilities, although major implementations may occasionally require early morning, evening, or weekend support. Periodic travel to regional clinics and other UVA Health locations may also be needed.

The Role

As a Nurse Informaticist, you will serve as a trusted connection between frontline clinicians, nursing leaders, operational stakeholders, Epic teams, and Health IT colleagues. You will bring a nursing perspective to system design, workflow optimization, governance, implementation, and adoption, ensuring technology supports the realities of clinical practice.

Your work will span a large and complex health system, with an immediate opportunity to support growing project demand in perioperative services and other priority clinical areas. This is an opportunity for an experienced informatics professional to work independently, develop strong stakeholder partnerships, and influence solutions at an enterprise level.

An average day may include:

• Evaluating current-state workflows, gathering clinical and operational requirements, and translating findings into practical technology recommendations.
• Analyzing and troubleshooting complex clinical system issues in partnership with clinicians, Epic teams, analysts, and Health IT colleagues.
• Supporting Epic upgrades, enhancement requests, workflow design, system optimization, and implementation planning.
• Participating in project meetings, design sessions, nursing governance, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Providing workflow consultation and collaborating with training teams, super users, and operational leaders to strengthen adoption.
• Delivering at-the-elbow support during major implementations and go-lives.
• Supporting clinical operations across the academic medical center, community locations, ambulatory clinics, and specialty service lines.
• Helping shape the structures, standards, and governance practices of a growing Nursing Informatics program.

Why UVA Health

UVA Health offers the reach and complexity of an integrated academic health system combined with the opportunity to make a visible, lasting contribution. Its clinical enterprise includes an academic medical center, community hospitals, rehabilitation services, and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics across Virginia.

This role is especially distinctive because you will join the first formal, centralized Nursing Informatics department in UVA Health's history. Rather than stepping into a fully established structure, you will help define how the discipline develops, how governance evolves, and how informatics supports nurses and clinical teams across the organization.

• Enterprise-level influence: Support technology and workflow improvements across nearly 1,000 inpatient beds and hundreds of ambulatory clinics.
• Meaningful executive visibility: Collaborate with nursing and operational leaders while working within an informatics structure led by the Chief Nursing Information Officer in partnership with the Chief Medical Information Officer.
• A highly experienced team: Join a small, collaborative group of Nurse Informaticists, analysts, and medical informatics professionals who bring strong expertise to complex work.
• Opportunity to build something new: Help shape workflows, governance structures, program development, and the broader future of nursing informatics.
• Strategic and varied work: Contribute to implementations, optimization initiatives, change management, clinical governance, and enterprise transformation.
• Professional growth and mentorship: Gain exposure to health system-wide initiatives while learning within a supportive environment committed to developing informatics professionals.
• Flexibility with purpose: Benefit from hybrid work, scheduling flexibility, and leadership that emphasizes outcomes, engagement, autonomy, and work-life balance.
• An academic nursing environment: Join a health system recognized for nursing excellence through Magnet Recognition and committed to advancing care through research, education, technology, and collaboration.
• Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

Why People Love Living in Charlottesville

Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville offers healthcare professionals an appealing combination of natural beauty, outdoor recreation, arts, music, local dining, and a strong sense of community. Residents can choose from vibrant city neighborhoods and surrounding communities while enjoying access to trails, parks, wineries, cultural events, and University of Virginia traditions. It is a setting that supports a rewarding healthcare career and a well-rounded life outside of work, whether your priorities include family activities, the outdoors, food and culture, or a more relaxed pace close to a nationally recognized academic environment.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited nursing program. Master's degree in informatics preferred.

Experience: 7 years relevant experience

Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Relevant certification preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Job requires sitting for prolonged periods. Proficient communicative auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings

• Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts

• Certification and education support

• Generous Paid Time Off

UVA Health is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report "Best Hospitals" guide rates UVA Health University Medical Center as "High Performing" in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children's is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA's commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.